This is an archive so please don't modify it. Post on my current talk page. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Casliber. I know this isn't exactly your area of expertise, but I was wondering if you could have a look at Melbourne Airport. The page has been up for A-class review for a month or two, and has not received any comments. Any opinions, however minor, would really be appreciated. Hope to see you there! » \ / (⁂ | ※) 16:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Casliber,
It would be really great if we could add the DSM-IV Code to the Infobox Disease Template. It would be extremely useful in the psychiatric disorder articles.
Thanks.
Kind Regards, --blurpeace (talk - contributions) 05:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Casliber. Argh this is incredibly frustrating for me, I did so much work on this article - especially the "place in maori culture" section and I'd love to be able to do more but these days I'm so busy that I honestly just don't have the time to contribute a lot - hence why i'm replying a few days late, having not logged in for a while. I will have a glance at some of the points you made tonight but otherwise will have to put it to one side for a bit. I'm taking some leave from the 24th to the 3rd of February and I can hopefully then FINALLY find the time to rip into this article and make some improvements.. no promises but if everything goes according to plan I will be able to do it. i have some questions though...
1.You are a prolific contributor and very active member of the wikipedia community, yet I assume you're pretty busy person too, what with the research that you do ( or so I gather from your profile page). i only found I could really comfortably contribute to wikipedia during months long university holidays - but i no longer have the luxury of having those - Any tips on how to fit in wikipedia editing time?
2. The edits I like to make most are the ones which I did on "Huia" - adding lots of new, well referenced material to expand an article substantially. However, I'm not quite sure how to go about the research bit.. It seems like a lot of editors have got some kind of system going..Here is how I did it back in '07; I simply went to the uni library and wellington central library and and got out all the books about the Huia I could find - in additon to magazine articles and books about it which i own. Next I read through all the information i had gathered and underlined the relavant stuff with pencil - then I categorised it according to what the info. was about - the categories I had were ( to give you an idea)
1. Description . 2. distribution and habitat 3. Behaviour - etc
I numbered the paragraphs according to what type of info. they covered. Then I went through and collated all the info. for each number/category of information and composed my writing straight onto wikipedia.
I didn't really know how to go about doing the research and may have sort of been "reinventing the wheel" a bit (so to speak). how do seasoned editors like yourself do it? and do you track down more hard to reach info. from scientific journal articles by ordering them in somehow? and finally, is there somewhere on wikipedia with hints as to how to do original research to write an article?
Your response would be greatly appreciated and very helpful Hope the summer weather is treating you guys well across the ditch, Cheers, Kotare (talk) 05:51, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Here is the link:
Thanks for the nomination! I listed some alternate hooks over at Template_talk:Did_you_know#Candy_cap. If you have suggestions for further work on this article or on the DYK, I'm game. Peter G Werner (talk) 04:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
... how do you rate Golden White-eye's chances of getting past FAC? I'm in two minds about submitting it. The GA review was very thorough, but the species is not well studied giving a paucity of references. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi! :) I have nominated the article Dwellers of the Forbidden City for Good Article status, as I feel it has undergone significant improvement from the point at which it was almost deleted. Since you were involved with improving the article, and/or sparing it from deletion, I'm inviting you to help out in any way you can to improve the article so that it may join its fellow modules, Ravenloft and Dragons of Despair as a Wikipedia Good Article. :) You may want to place the review page (which may not begin immediately) on your watchlist to keep track of the review process. BOZ (talk) 20:59, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Cool find! Are you sure that bullywugs debuted in DotFC rather than the Fiend Folio? BOZ (talk) 03:00, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
The article is now up for good article review, so if there is anything at all you can contribute to get the article the rest of the way there, let us know. :) BOZ (talk) 04:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Your next FA task, since you like plants, is this article. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:24, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Casliber, Is there a way of recovering the text of an article after it has been deleted from Wikipedia? The reason I ask is that Padres Hana has asked me this question about an article he had deleted: Eva Ducas. I had a feeling that this was something an administrator could do? Regards Marek.69 talk 23:19, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Cas;
Would you be interested in taking a look at Deinosuchus? I've been participating in a peer review for the article, which the author intends to put forth for an FA nom. I think it is of high quality, but I haven't been on FAC for over a year so I don't really know what it's like now, so it would be good to get someone who's worked with the process more recently to check it over. Thanks! J. Spencer (talk) 23:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello again Casliber, I'm a bit confused. There already appears to be a Peer Review currently taking place on Pope John Paul II? (Please see: Wikipedia:Peer review/Pope John Paul II/archive2). I was unaware of this happening, but will try to go with it. Also, between myself and Can-Dutch, I thought we had already reduced the articles size considerably. I now understand what you were getting at previously about article length.(!) Any more ideas? Marek.69 talk 04:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Another question, if I may? On the Pope John Paul II page, do you think it would be OK to significantly shorten the ‘Criticism’ section, transferring text to a new daughter article: Criticisms of Pope John Paul II, as we have done already to the other sections? I've already posted my question on the talk page. -- Marek.69 talk 04:10, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I noticed on the peer review volunteers page that you're interested in biology and medicine articles. I've been working on Icos (was a biotech company), and I just put it up for peer review. Can you take a look at it and make/suggest improvements? I would like to be able to take the article to FA after the peer review. Thanks, Shubinator (talk) 00:13, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Dravecky (talk) 23:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Dravecky (talk) 11:00, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Sure, I'd love to give the article a look, see if I can see anything that needs improving. I'm quite complimented that I'm on your contact list, as it were. I'll take a read now. J Milburn (talk) 16:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
C;
If you'd known I'd be back, would you have re-considered your ArbCom run? ^_^
I extend the same warm commis-, err, congratulations to you on your appointment that I did to Risker. I have high hopes (tempered of course by painful experience) and look forward you your first executive orders.
brenneman 04:05, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Mostly since there's a global shortage on equal signs. Thanks for the constructive edits to Tori Amos. If I'm being a pig-head (hey, there's a first time for everything, right?) please don't be afraid to let me know. Oh, and yes I am in Melbourne , although my presence there has never been explicitly condoned by either state of federal authorities. - brenneman 00:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Maybe you should chip in, having appeared on ABC TV. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 04:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, if you need help accessing these print sources about ghost films, let me know! :) —Erik (talk • contrib) 04:16, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Cas, I had a little go at it, I didn't strike out any of the comments at the informal peer review but I did attempt to fix up the toxicology related ones. It seems a shame the worlds most famous mushroom isn't a GA yet :), good luck with it, let me know if anything I wrote doesn't make sense or needs referencing, cheers Mr Bungle | talk 08:27, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Cas, I'm working on Passer montanus now, one of the many species Oz and NZ have so gratefully received from Europe to enhance the fauna. I'm a bit unclear on its current status down under - can you help? Thanks, jimfbleak (talk) 08:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
This is Original Research - Synthesis. It is taking claims about the genus (the Asian fossils, not the American, and there are only American for the Deinonychus) and then reworking it to make a claim that none of the articles do. Wikipedia is not for new arguments based on various facts. Since you involved yourself in the discussion, could you please remove this clear violation? Ottava Rima (talk) 19:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
You responded at the Greece Runestones that you had no problem with using Swedish only sources. I have produced two books (in English) that goes into detail about what is unique about various parts of the stone and this information is not included. I have produced a journal devoted to the one region's stones and it is in English (with at least one article talking about one of the stones). I have produced information from the museum in Oxford's exhibit on the one stone and the history behind it. I think with even that little bit of information found from a cursory search that you should reevaluate if this is still a special case that Swedish only sources are acceptable. The user in question is refusing to add any of the new information because it will make his page too large. Its not longer "there aren't any" claims. Ottava Rima (talk) 18:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I came across a new documentary film you might want to catch: Know Your Mushrooms Cheers,LeadSongDog (talk) 20:21, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Cas; sorry I haven't got back to you yet—work is just overwhelming at the moment. I take a little time off for WP once a day. Right now, it's this proposal, which I raised during the ArbCom elections. You may wish to observe or comment.
Tony (talk) 13:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I think I am leaving. Cheers PHG (talk) 14:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology (C)(T) 08:00, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Well, Amanita muscaria is definitely ready for FAC after those changes have been made- probably, there will be some further reccomendations from FAC regulars, but it really is a brilliant article. I enjoy writing the minor species articles because there are enough sources to spend an hour or two knocking up a decent article (great for DYK, or, in a couple of cases, GA) and I'm only writing the milk cap articles becuase the first one I wrote happened to be a Lactarius species- thought I may as well stick with that for now! In terms of bigger projects, at first I thought maybe working on one of your creations- list of Lactarius species- and bringing to to featured list status. The technical side of things bamboozled me (sub-genus? Category? Subcategory? The only sources I could find for that stuff were far too technical for me) but I did clean it up a bit and add some pictures- I think it looks a little better now. Fairy ring would be a fantastic idea, but I've had another idea- Portal:Fungi has not even been created, but because of the wealth of great articles and whatnot listed at the WikiProject page, I reckon I could knock up a great one in a few hours, then hopefully nominate that for featured portal status. Another project I was involved in, WikiProject heavy metal, have a featured portal here- apart from the news bit (I'm not really aware of much fungi related news- perhaps someone a little more involved in the world of fungi could maintain that?) I think we could easily base a portal on that, then add links to various articles (perhaps tag it on to some infoboxes or something). What do you reckon? J Milburn (talk) 12:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Right, spent a while on it, but I'm done enough to "open it to the public", as it were. The portal can be viewed at Portal:Fungi, and I've asked for comments on the WikiProject talk page. J Milburn (talk) 19:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:ARS/Tagged I think you deserve a barnstar.
Coding: ((WP:ARS/Tagged))
Ikip (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | ||
The "What a Brilliant Idea!" Barnstar should be awarded to a user who figures out an elegant solution to a particularly burdensome bottleneck or problem, or who identifies a means to improve Wikipedia in a profound way.
This Barnstar is awarded to Casliber, for his profound idea to help the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron rescue articles. On behalf of all editors who feel that editors contributions to wikipedia are important, and should be preserved thank you. Ikip (talk) 14:25, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Hi Casliber: I'm finally getting around to putting out another project newsletter, and am wondering if we've dropped the collaboration article idea. It seems to have been last updated about the same time as the last newsletter! :P Let me know if there's a new one, and I'll plug it... MeegsC | Talk 14:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out to me. Could you do me a small favor? I need to move the article Ali-Ben Bongo to Ali Bongo Ondimba, as the latter is more often used, both in the press and official contexts. To do that, I need the redirect deleted. Everyking (talk) 02:13, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I've seen you hanging around FAC, particularly at the Mother's Milk nom, and was wondering if you could review In Utero, which has a nomination that's received a surprisingly small amount of comments so far (this is probably the slowest FAC I've ever been involved in). Any comments are welcome. WesleyDodds (talk) 08:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
G'day, I'm not sure where exactly I've interacted with you before, probably something bird related. I rather suspect that User:Jf268 is a sock puppet. Pretty much all of the users contributions are related to FPC (see [1]) over a period of a few months but I can't spot any correlation between Jf268 and any other user as far as votes are concerned. I think you have checkuser ability and was wondering what your opinion on the matter was? Noodle snacks (talk) 11:02, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, there are a lot of good fungi images about- I just didn't want to declare any as selected pictures unilaterally. I'm currently filtering through the featured pictures on foreign language Wikipedias- I've set up a nomination process on the portal, so if there still aren't enough selected images after that, I'll have a look around and nominate some of the better pictures. If there are any you particularly like, you're welcome to nominate some too. If I find any good enough, I may slide them FPCs way- the only featured fungi picture we have is File:Haeckel Lichenes.jpg, some more would be nice. J Milburn (talk) 20:10, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I agree. I've referred to the space within my userspace as "personal", which is a different matter. I said I would discuss with Mattisse in private over a new place to meet, and by that I meant by email. I just wanted to be clear on that. There are reasons why I wish the conversations with Mattisse to take place onwiki, and Mattisse also has her reasons. I made a mistake by making comments about Giano. I recognise that. I have apologised for that. What I am concerned with now is moving the matter forward. I would appreciate your assistance in this matter. SilkTork *YES! 20:24, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Fine by me - have at it. Maybe we'll edit some horticulture articles sometime, another passion of mine but one I have done very little on-wiki to date. :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I am notifying you that a article you previously reviewed for FAC has been nominated again. Please, if you can, take the time to see if the article has been improved enough to consider supporting, and if not, let us know what needs improving. :) BOZ (talk) 23:21, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Casliber. I just signed up at WP:FUNGI, and after seeing that you've contributed some featured content to that project, I was wondering if you had any tips or suggestions for a newbie like myself. :) Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:15, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Cas, had a look at the Mushroom Observer site, and then the 'net for a free pic of an A. muscaria button cross-section, but no dice. I guess your best bet is to find one yourself, like you suggested, or even draw your own. Another option would be checking some older texts to see if there's a free pic to scan in, but that might just turn out to be a goose chase. I'll keep my eyes open though, I recently acquired Buller's 5-volume set Researches on Fungi (1922), and its chock-full of cool little diagrams that I plan to sprinkle liberally in various fungi articles :) Sasata (talk) 05:20, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
You'll like this. I've been spending some time in rural Bali. Yesterday, at a house in the middle of some rice fields with no other buildings for about a half km, a local woman came walking down the path with a bamboo pole about 3m long. The pole was a lot like a basic fishing pole; light and springy, and the last 1/2m was a bit of stiff wire lashed to the tip of the pole. The wire was coated in a gooey white sap. She was catching dragonflies with it. There were hundreds within easy sight. All she had to do was wave the end near them and they landed in the sap and she pulled it back, plucked off the wings, and did it again. She had a whole bag full; dinner. Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:08, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Bali has lots of bugs, and many are rather large. Rainy season begins in November. After the first good solid rain, some species of termite hatch in the billions. They're about 2cm long with a wingspan of 3cm. They take to the air one night and are attracted to light. They swarm every light bulb on the island and they especially like florescent lights, which are common as they are cheap to run. Many street lights are just a plain florescent fixture with a cheap indoor-grade switch mounted where anyone can turn it on or off as they see fit. The termites batter themselves against the light unceasingly. They idea seems to be a mating gathering and they keep it up until the wings are shed and they drop to the ground (with a mate?).
At Dewa Warung, they have a trick; they take a plastic bag and blow it up like a balloon and seal it shut with a hot kitchen implement. The bag is dipped in oil and pinned to a light fixture so that it's touching the bulb (even the incandescent bulbs are low enough wattage that they don't melt a hole). The termite wings really stick well to the oily bag and this accelerates the shedding of the wings. The Balinese also place a bowl with cooking oil in it directly under the bag to catch the now wingless termites. They are dipped in a batter and boiled, and offered to the tourists (most of whom balk — myself included), then they eat them to prove it's no joke.
On termite night, your best bet is to retire early with all the light out; if you don't they will find you. The next morning, all that remains are the wings. There are drifts of them easily 10cm deep in wide piles under every light that was on all night. They clog the paths and you walk through them like autumnal leaves. They are soon swept up and I would expect they're used for mulch or something; the Balinese waste nothing.
See Termite; is all true ;)
Cheers, Jack Merridew 13:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Cas: Been reading and hearing some terrible things about the fires down there. I hope you and yours are all safe! MeegsC | Talk 21:32, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you have any thoughts on the Paroxetine page. In my view, warnings about "suicide ideation" belong in a sub section and not the opening paragraph. Why is it that the risk of "suicide ideation" gets highlighted, but not the reduction in risk of actual suicide. Here is an article you may find useful: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/11/after_2_decade_decline_teen_su.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.150.2.55 (talk) 17:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
The GA process is very slow and backlogged at the moment (or, was for me!) and the article is very close to being ready for a FAC. You'd probably be better off just spending a couple more weeks (or how ever long it takes- you may find yourself with a free day at some point- you never know) working it up to that standard, then submit it. You could possibly be waiting a month for a GA review. J Milburn (talk) 10:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Did I leave you a message, or has this just came out of the blue? I don't recall leaving you a message, but it is perfectly possible. As for writing, I am currently working on an FT with Ironholds, so that should be okay on that side. As a side note - I am not a deletionist (at least as far as I am aware...)
"Yep, wondered who you were and then saw the explanation page" leaves me to believe that you've actually messaged the wrong person, mind, as that seems to indicate you're replying to something, and I can't seem to find my signature on this page, and don't recall leaving you a message elsewhere. Am I missing something? Thanks. :) — neuro(talk) 07:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't suppose there is any chance we could squeeze this[2] or even [3] this into your article. No? Ah well was worth a try, though I suspect they would not do great things to those desperately checking wikipedia to find out what the hell is happening to me. Har. Ceoil (talk) 01:39, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I am lecturing a graduate course in the University of Cambridge at the moment, so am on wikibreak. I contributed evidence to two recent arbcom cases (PHG and Fringe Science). I have a little experience editing medieval history articles related to the Crusader period. I removed one sentence written by User:Elonka from Knights Templar. She proceeded to perform a character assassination upon me on the talk page [4]. I wonder whether you might prevail upon her to desist from this kind of personal attack in future. It was immoderate and completely untrue - an attempt to paint me as some kind of criminal. I made one edit. She seems to have completely over-reacted. Many thanks, Mathsci (talk) 22:32, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to comment on my draft proposal. We obviously don't agree, but I shall do my best to take your comments into account. Best wishes, and good editing Physchim62 (talk) 11:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
--Dravecky (talk) 07:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, I recently received an email from Martyn Joseph requesting that the personal information on his article be removed. He particularly requested privacy in regards to his family (his daughter's birth date and his son's name were revealed) and faith. The material in question has since been removed, but could these revisions of the article qualify for oversight to further respect his wishes? Thanks. Orlandkurtenbach (talk) 01:25, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Casliber, I didn't nominate Led Zeppelin II for GA status but would there be anything wrong with me answering/responding to your questions in the review? Cheers. MegX (talk) 09:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
--Dravecky (talk) 07:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. I'll search for the page numbers for those publications, but otherwise the references have been cleaned up. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:23, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. DYK is due for an update, and none of the regular DYK admins are around. Can you do an update? It should be from queue 5. Shubinator (talk) 23:39, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Cas;
Any interest in having a look at Edmontosaurus? I have to warn you, it would take somewhat more time than Deinosuchus, as you know I have a tendency to go on and on... J. Spencer (talk) 16:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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I added an ALT hook to your DYK nomination and thought you may want to offer your opinion. Thanks. Law shoot! 23:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
I've adjusted the refs so that they are formatted in a way consistent with the way the cite templates format them- the commas and semi-colons- and so they are a little more readable (A. B., instead of AB). If you're not happy with the changes, feel free to revert, but I think that the refs the way they were before were irritatingly inconsistent. If you opt to go for the formatting they were in before (Smith QW, Jones DV, Taylor GH etc...) then I think the best option will be to take them out of the templates all together, that will always try to use commas between first and last names, and semicolons between people. J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, just letting you know that I have passed the article. Thanks for your time with it, I don't know how you manage to fit so much in. J Milburn (talk) 21:58, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Excuse my bringing a tiresome matter to your attention but please take a look at Wikipedia:AE#Please enforce the pseudoscience arbitration which relates to an Arbcom ruling. Here we see User:ScienceApologist making a heated personal attack, quite contrary to the specific guidance at that page, which counsels against such slurs. This is not unusual, I suppose, but what shocks me is the attitude of the admin there. Rather than reproving this editor for his incivility, he just hands out warnings to the several editors with whom User:ScienceApologist is warring and so indulges his bad behaviour. I am left with the impression that the admin is partisan rather than impartial, though I may, of course, be missing something (and I am the butt of the tirade too).
We have similar complaints about other admins who appoint themselves to act in Arbcom's name - Elonka is a high-profile example. Please consider appointing admins directly for enforcement of vexatious matters, so that neutral admins of high probity may resolve such cases, rather than those who may be attracted to the case for their own reasons. I am not sure who these paragons might be but User:Uncle G is one that I have considerable respect for. Colonel Warden (talk) 01:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Is this a real therapy? It reads very new age, but you'd know better. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 17:27, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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For lack of FA/GA contributions! YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
So as not to clutter Sandy's page (which is so fun to do) - I normally work on sections from those related to my user page lists. I can handle them easily. However, there are things that pop up all of the time at the Poetry page or other types of areas. Milhist has a lot of people. Places like Wikiproject Poetry only have three active members. There are pages that were once FA that need repair. Something like Pound's Cantos need to be worked on. Then you have people like Jayvdb who works on the journals project. There is a lot of work that needs to be done there. I would think of what a core issue Wikipedia needs. You were going around working on some topics (like ghost). Perhaps go through and get all of the "basic" monsters filled in and improved? Those would be highly searched topics. Ottava Rima (talk) 05:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Gatoclass (talk) 14:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey Casliber, I have a commited identity which I've put on a subpage in my userspace and sub'd it into my main userpage. Is their any way I can get the subpage protected so it can't be changed just to be extra sure no one tampers with it.
Get back to me on my talk page whenever you get a second. Cheers.
Right now 6 of the 8 AE threads are on fringe and pseudo-science related things, makes me wonder if we need a Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement/Fringe crap board. </humor> MBisanz talk 01:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the horror barnstar for Bride of Frankenstein. It was an arduous process; good to know that the community appreciates the effort. Otto4711 (talk) 10:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Casliber, belated post holiday thanks for your support in my RFA, which passed by an embarrassingly wide margin. There's a full glitzy Oscar style version of my acceptance speech here, but I wanted to thank you specifically as "helpful and positive in outlook" was a very nice thing to say. WereSpielChequers 21:51, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I must have missed something. Where did SirFozzie alert ArbComm/Clerks that he had modified the case page? Hipocrite (talk) 19:23, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
New stub; know much about this fellow? Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:47, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Cheers Cas,, have been distracted by local Avian population, and having digital camera probs. I see you are working as hard as ever. Luridiformis (talk) 12:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Casliber. While exploring the User talk pages of proflic editors, I somehow came across your name. I'm doing a research project at UCSC about Wikipedia and I see that you're very active member (even sitting on several committees?). If you have the time, I would love to hear about your thoughts and experience on Wikipedia. The discussion is currently underway at my talk page, it would be great if you could jump in wherever you have a comment.
Have a nice evening! Thanks for your time. Rodomontade (talk) 02:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for closing the above thread. Yesterday, I commented at Wikipedia:Editor review/A Nobody and it was removed (twice, thrice) by A Nobody. There followed a fair bit of discussion by him and others about this. I have restored my comment and stated that it should not be removed again. More eyes welcome. Cheers, Jack Merridew 05:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Russula fragilis at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Law shoot! 12:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to make sure that you realised that Two Row actually redirects to that section of the article, not the barley article as a whole. Guettarda (talk) 13:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Since you've been involved in fixing element article IP vandalisms, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion on semi-protection for element articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! SBHarris 23:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! Do you mean stuff along the lines of Wikipedia:Peer review/Treveri/archive1? Thanks for your time and help! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 04:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I have no intention of edit-warring the closure. I do find it sad that the review remained open so long as the comments were positive, but once it got to the negative sides of A Nobody's editing, like the deceptive edit summaries and implausible explanations for his vanishing act, the review was suddenly considered to have degenerated. Negative comments are useful input for any editor that has any serious intent at improvement. The community's acceptance of the vanishing act is something that I have to swallow and live with, but his continued defense of deceptive edit summaries is extremely troubling.—Kww(talk) 05:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
DYK… that this city of a million people has no article on en:wp? Cheers, Jack Merridew 05:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Well if there were a single source I would not have put it where I put it. We cannot (at present) put the whole thing in the article. But we can add some of the info. Here's how:
Every time we cite a cladistic study, we automatically accept arguments from parsimony. This is not immediately obvious to the novice reader, but if would not accept arguments from parsimony, each and every cladistic analysis is baseless mumbo-jumbo.
We could not argue like this if this were Conservapedia or if we'd subscribe to intelligent design - a Creator could invoke any trait out of thin air, without precedent in the ancestors. Whereas if you accept the premises of cladistic studies as valid, it is automatically accepted that anything that is frequent in the basal and rare in the advanced lineages of a clade is presumed to be the ancestral character state because "it is more parsimonious" to assume a single origin than multiple origins.
So we can take all the phylogenetics papers that have been published - as we'll do anyway - and arrive at a consensus phylogeny. And we can reference the appearance of all cockatoos with a single source - Juniper/Parr, HBW, Forshaw/Cooper for example (I would not prefer HBW here, as the other sources are more detailed) and cross-refer them to the consensus phylogeny. And then we can say "It is notable that among the basal lineages, the following plumage patterns are generally seen: ... This suggests that it is most parsimonious that such plumage was already present in the last common ancestor of all living cockatoos."
We could cite some phylogenetics textbook's part on character evolution for this, but we don't cite a physics textbook's part on gravity either any time some article mentions something falling down.
Taking this, we can note that certain plumage patterns are seen in (almost) all the basal lineages and only lost in the advanced lineages. "Almost" because the question of why Probosciger is aterrimus ("the blackest") is unresolved. So we cannot be certain about details, but we can point out that all the data contradicts certain patterns of plumage evolution pretty certainly. As regards the original cockatoos, what is unparsimonious would for example be:
What we can also use is one of the psittaciform phylogenies that puts the NZ clade at the base (which is essentially any modern psittaciform phylogeny) as corroborating evidence - a cryptic pattern involving some degree of barring is appartently plesiomorphic for all crown Psittaciformes (and I suspect for all Psittaciformes in general).
In any case, one thing needs to be noted: the placement of the Cockatiel is not determinable with certainty at present! (IIRC one possibility is slightly more likely than the other, but I'd have to sift through all the papers to find out which. Given how singular it is, even that cannot be regarded as proof; we need fossil evidence from near the point where the Cockatiel branched off from the other lineages, and we do not have this.) Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 09:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Gang Gang might actually not warrant inclusion in either subfamily - while the analysis results for the Cockatiel are contradictory because you can get quite good support for either possibility (IIRC), Callocephalon simply refuses to fit into the "nice" dichotomies phylogenetics software will try to construct. As regards the synthesis stick, my take is with WP:BURDEN - it is pretty hard to challenge the obvious (namely that some taxon has some phenotypical traits), especially considering Felsenstein's "Phylogenies and the comparative method" (which should provide sufficient justification for a "naive" character mapping) gets cited in scholarly works on average once every three days since 24 years... Note though that as soon as the phylogeny gets contentious, a dedicated source is surely needed - see for example the very fine paper here.
One can actually turn the burden of evidence, in this case for example: "provide a source that suggests that the LCA of cockatoos was all-white/all-black". Otherwise, where would one stop? The conclusion that chimpanzees were never bipedal in their evolution is generally accepted at face value by precisely the same reasoning, although there is simply not a single shred of material evidence to support this assumption: no fossils on the chimp side of the lineage are known, and the fossils on the human side of the lineage are all (at least preferentially) bipedal.
But as I said, claims cannot be made with finality as long as there is no study where Probosciger tail and cheek feathers have been photographed in UV or observed under a SEM. What we can do at this point is to observe the obvious, describe the situation as far as can be plainly seen.
PS: the molphyl/clock studies of psittaciforms and the fossil record square NO WAY, you guys gotta be careful. The recent "proves Cretaceous" paper was technically far better as I thought, but in the context of Wikipedia it would be accused on severe POVpushing... For one thing, the Cretaceous scenario together with the molphyl trend to put them close to passeriforms (which may well be good, though I suppose not as close as the first large-scale trees suggest) puts the origin of a lot of birdy stuff into the Mesozoic nether regions. Also, a lot of fossils that ought to be there have not turned up, I mean not even traces in well-studied regions. And finally, the entire theory is probabilistic, but if that other paper on Cenozoic NZ and sea levels is right (it is cited off-handedly in the Cretaceous paper), the probability for a deep Mesozoic origin of the Psittaciformes is around 2.769126%ish ;-) (it is hard for kakapo ancestors to survive on a submerged microcontinent...) If they had titled it "cannot refute a Cretaceous origin", I'd have been delighted. But this way, it is just like the bad old times of molphyl 15 years ago -trying to outrace each other with data with a signal/noise ratio that reaches abysmality after 100 Ma.
Today's work: smelly frogs, or so it seems. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 05:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
This medical mushroom article has seen significant change lately if you'd like to have a boo.LeadSongDog come howl 18:09, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
aka the Australian bush fly. It seems the proper name; Google. I found this here; Aussie salute and here; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aussie Salute (second nomination) and see it mentioned here; Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do ( which may be your doing ;). G'day, Jack Merridew 11:40, 4 April 2009 (UTC)